Ich habe diesen Blumenstrauß von Lillies für meine Fensterleiste bekommen und sie blühten heute, während ich bei der Arbeit war. Ich wusste nicht, wie Lillies riechen sollen, also ging ich ins Haus und mein erster Gedanke war „etwas brennt“. Rannte eine Stunde lang herum und versuchte die Quelle herauszufinden, bis ich den vermeintlichen brennenden Geruch mit diesen kleinen Scheißen in Verbindung gebracht habe. Sollen sie so scharf riechen? Es gibt mir Kopfschmerzen. Wenn so hübsch, warum so stinkend? Vielleicht bin ich nur hyperempfindlich gegenüber neuen Düften. Es ist nicht schlecht, einfach wirklich stark.
Von: charcoalcaricature
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Yes.
Yep some lilies can be super strong smelling! I find it overwhelming too.
FYI if you have cats get rid of them are they’re incredibly toxic
Yes! They do have a very peculiar, strong fragrance. Most of us love it, it’s beautiful. But if you’re finding it overwhelming, I understand, completely okay. It may be that your system is still adjusting to it.
Also there are a lot of lilies in here. Maybe just keep one stem in the home, the rest you can keep outside (if there’s an open space outside of home) or gift it to friends.
Start with 1 stem, it’ll be less overwhelming.
Hope this helps 🙂
Yep
yes that’s why I don’t grow them
I always felt they smelled very much like rubbing alcohol, but sweet. They’re one of my favorite flowers in the realm of scent, but it’s not for everyone. Same with paperwhites.
Yup. I love how they look but can’t stand the smell.
It’s like cilantro. Love or hate
Yeah I really dislike them because of their fragrance- it makes me feel nauseous
you’re not alone!! i can’t tolerate the smell of lilies either. some people love them though!!
and my standard cat lady PSA: this type of lily is SUPER toxic to cats. even just a little pollen can give them kidney failure.
Yes! Stargazer lilies are very pungent in smell!
If you have cats they are very toxic fyi
Yes. Not all of them smell, but yeah they can be quite pungent.
Yup.
Yes, that’s why they are used in funerals in the u.s.
one the jobs of the flower is to attract a pollinator, therefore the stench but in this case a lovely fragrant.
I love the smell of them but have to put them out of the room pot an evening because it just gets too much – know what you mean about a burning smell.
yes, especially star runner and star gazer lilies
I enjoy the smell of them briefly, but the smell + pollen are migraine triggers for me. When I worked in a florist, I’d put gloves on and pluck the anthers as soon as I could.
If you pluck off the anthers they’ll last longer and be a little less fragrant. Putting them in a cooler spot will also help the scent be less noticeable.
Ha. I can’t stand the smell of them, which is too bad because they are so pretty. If you remove the stamens and pollen from the centers that will make them less pungent.
I cannot handle the smell of any lilies anywhere. They always remind me of funerals.
Yeah..it ain’t sweet in any sense 😂
I love the smell. My ex hated the smell so I never bought them. Now I get a bunch every other week. I can buy myself flowers! 😍
Yes, so many people object to the scent that they are forbidden in our hospitals, including the asiatic/trumpet lily hybrids.
As a Visual Presentation Manager I was also a trained florist, we used lots of flowers in our luxury goods stores. Invariably someone would claim to be “allergic” to the pollen or scent.
Lilies have sticky pollen that is never airborne in the still air of indoors. Then when I’d use scentless pollenless blooming plants they’d complain that they no longer had vase arrangements.
It was especially annoying because they were surrounded by fabric dyes in clothing and the tiny fibers wafting about, but it always “the flowers” that caused their allergies.
Many times my own flower shop would deliver flowers regularly to Corporate employees whose partners loved surprising them, no matter how scent-free the flowers were, another employee would complain. Jealousy is common in the workplace.
Many common houseplants also have that “lily”scent when they finally bloom. Dracaenas and Sansevierias have such blooms with sweet scent.
I lived in the Florida Keys in a house with a night blooming Jasmine the size of an SUV, but I loved the scent. I lived in Palo Alto with a pink Jasmine (polyanthum) hedge 30 feet long. It was an Eichler house with every room with walls that opened to the outdoors, we especially loved the powerful Jasmine scent.
I grow scented plants in every garden, especially fragrant roses to bring indoors and I have always grown Angel’s Trumpets ( Brugmansias) everywhere I’ve lived, including now on my Portland Oregon balcony. Their scent is heavenly! I have lived in 8 states, gardening in every one. I love lilies, I have grown Oriental lilies, the strongly scented ones, here in Oregon that grew 8 feet tall with more than 25 blooms on many stems. I anticipated their spectacular scent every summer. Every spring my Poets Jasmine filled the air with scent, just as my Butterfly Gingers did every fall. I can’t imagine hating scented flowers, but I’m a man; what do I know?